The night went well, but Michael was terribly busy, over five
hundred women and children were in the Great Hall, Heaven's staff was exceedingly
small, but Michael directed them to
see to the needs of the crowd inside, boxes of new
supplies brought forth, and the wafers passed out, one to a person. Not satisfying
meal, but the nutrient rich wafers would hold them for tonight, fortunately the
women let in the facility had brought with them all the food in their
possession. Micheal consulted Sandra and together they produced a plan. First,
they would need to process and sort out staff they would need for the bunker
personnel, secondly, they would have to clean up the dead bodies and deal with
the remaining men outside.
Even though Sandra had segregated the women, Micheal
sitting at his console, he and GOD focused their instruments on each woman as
entered single file through a machine that looked a metal detector. As the
first one came through Michael asked her to place her thumb in a slot in the
machine, a small pinprick and a blood sample taken. After she removed her
thumb, the sample analyzed, and the machine self-cleaned within seconds, ready for
the next person.
Michael knew many of the women's faces but he had not
been a very social person, so he only remembered the names of the ones he
worked with. They asked how they felt about GOD, and would they follow
Michael's orders, and had they had any part in planning the exodus. Most of the
women passed with excellence, but twenty were sorted out by GOD and segregated
for further interrogation, one of these ladies was Lizzy a familiar face and a
friend of Sandra's. To keep the process moving, he ran the rest through as fast
as possible and got Sandra much-needed Support People. After they completed the
interviews of 156 women, Sandra took charge of 136 women who passed. The
remaining 20 were now Micheal's focus, Lizzy I know you, why did you lie, what
are you not telling us? We were associated with the rebellion because our men
did not want to share us with others due to Bunker mating requirements. We did
not plan the escape, we simply supported their decisions, Lizzy said. Michael
consulted GOD and agreed on a solution. All of you Ex Bunker personnel, who
want to be permanent mates, may exit the building to join your spouses, you may
form a colony of former bunker personnel only. You must leave the area and
travel to a designated area a hundred miles west and start a new colony, you
may also take children if they volunteer to join you.
Michael then left and went to the rooftop of the Bunker;
with the enhanced vision he watched the men who worked cleaning up the dead and
recorded all who participated. GOD had left their fate it in his hands. The men who lead the desertion, had been
killed or elected to stay with the horde. There were only about 200 left around
the facility and only about half of those were contributing. After setting up a
table outside, Jeff helped him pass out wafers and water, as the men lined up,
he used his heads up display to correlate the workers to his file, each of them
received a stamp on the back of his hand.
Ten percent of them were ex-bunker personnel but the
others were men from vestige groups. After this lengthy ordeal was completed,
the previous bunker people were brought inside, comingling with the others in
the hall, then Micheal made and announcement, all previous Bunker personnel who
wish to live with wives and children in the location GOD had selected, to
gather in the right hand corner of the Great hall by the exterior wall
tomorrow morning. I will give you 24 hours to make your decisions. GOD monitors
this new home site, anyone attempting to leave this area you will be struck
down. Remember former members of Heaven are not allowed to comingle with the seeded
DNA colonies. I will appoint two leaders and give them Communicators. If raiders
threaten you, contact me for assistance. But remember there will be no turning
back.
The next morning forty people had gathered for the exit
to the new location, two gentlemen named Matthew and Jhon appointed as leaders
and given full gear to face the trails ahead. Before they left, we had all the
remaining men outside gather in front of the main entrance. The new Colony had forty
people, plus five children. You should leave out the back entrance; I want your
exit done quietly and we shall limit the number of people that know where you
are going. You should head south for about five miles, you will run into a old
road system. Follow the road west until you come to a River, that is where your
New Home is, there will be plenty of water and resources, I will drop by to
check on your progress in a few months. Micheal had a team monitor their exit
from the top of the facility, until they were completely out of sight.
Micheal then turned to address, the remaining men
outside, if you intend to stay here you will have work and prove your worth, I
have already witnessed many that have disobeyed my instructions, it's very late
in the year for planting, but you need to help gather food and build shelters.
I would recommend on the south side of the facility against the wall. Once you
have shelters built, I will release the women and children if they want to join
you. With the forty leaving only twenty-two men and three hundred women are left
in Heaven. So, the sorting continued for months as the snow started falling, the
vestige women started joining men outside and taking children with them. The
women remaining from the vestige horde, in Heaven, trained and became part of
Heaven's staff.